The current Iran debacle 100% boils down to the Trump administration's dismissal of all soft knowledge (humanities such as culture studies, history etc.) as "woke bullshit". It's *always* been a problem for American military planners, but the current admin turned it up to eleven. The result?

Sorry, the dominant view here is that the government is run by 12-year olds, but that's insulting to 12-year olds, because any 12-year old that's ever played Civilization or any other strategy game would've absolutely predicted this scenario.

Złamałem się. www.facebook.com/share/p/1C2k...

Oczywiście nie wolno zarzucać prezydentowi zdrady narodowej. Zarzut zdrady to coś, co wolno tylko rzucać prawicy przy każdej możliwej okazji. Prawicowy prezydent z definicji jest polskim patriotą i przez to nie może być winien zdrady.

Prezydent Nawrocki mógł wybrać rację stanu, ale to by wymagało faktycznej odwagi, a nie kibolskiej buty, więc wybrał zdradę. Decyzja w stylu tej o odrzuceniu przez PRLowski rząd Planu Marshalla. Innymi słowy - niezmywalna hańba. Może jednak niektórzy z PiS postanowią się ogarnąć i przełamać weto?

It's nice that they're now giving a realistic timeframe for the Iran war.

Okay, I think one thing has to be said explicitly, because I feel like a lot of people are missing it. Pure, sadistic, unfettered aggression is not "manly". It's not "masculine". It's not "strong". It's thuggish, weak and immoral, straight out evil.

The funny thing now is, the side to play for regime change might be... Iran. Iran knows that if Trump now chickens out, moves all troops away and they reopen the Homuz Strait, the US economy will quickly recover. But that also means they risk a repeat of the situation.

So, there has been talk that Trump wants regime change in Iran. The thing is, he doesn't. He was delusional enough to believe he could use the strikes to force a second Venezuela - a leader change *without* a regime change. But this had no chance for at least two reasons:

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

I see my favorite market index seems to be making a comeback:

*Ostatnią rzeczą*, którą powinno robić państwo polskie, to pomaganie w jakikolwiek sposób tym obrzydliwym pasożytom, którzy na co dzień śmieją się wszystkim uczciwym obywatelom w twarz i uważają ich za frajerów kantując na podatkach, a teraz płaczą, że nie mają jak wrócić z Dubaju.

So I see Trump has just given a live Lord Farquaad speech. It's insane that they are such cartoonishly villainous and yet so many people just refuse to see it.

When will those idiots realize that (also based on the American experience) a dominant majority of people who want "immigration security" want *security*, not *racist sadism*? You can declare you'll be harsher on criminals and if people see it works, that'll be enough. You don't have to be Nazi.

If people think that regime change in Iran is going to be quick and easy and "people will just rise up", I encourage them to read Wikipedia: "Estimates of the number of Basij vary, with its leadership giving higher figures than outside commentators. Official estimates are as high as 23.8 million."

So, they killed Khamenei, they'll probably kill a lot of the top power structure. You know what the problem is? The next leaders might not be leaders of a wannabe-regional superpower, but a terrorist rogue state. In other words - you could be looking at the Houthis, but many, many times over.

Trads often complain that Vatican 2 wasn’t harsh or condemnatory enough. Actually, Vatican 2 was like its master Jesus, who didn’t come into the world to judge the world. Those who are angry at Vatican 2 have already condemned themselves. The Council merely shed light and took some masks off

Okay, prophet mode, here's how this going to go. The US is going to use all the ordnance they amassed on their carriers to bomb Iran for a couple of theys. They might try to assasinate the regime leaders as well. Then, whatever happens, Trump will boast he destroyed the nuclear threat and retreat.

Let's look at the bright side: Trump can now end a ninth war!

Anthropic should immediately terminate all services offered to DoD. I'm quite sure they have a clause in their contract that can be interpreted to that end in case of a major hostile move like this. Let Hegseth rush to integrate Grok in a week, see how well that goes.

Hint hint: once voters already believe you've moved so far to the right that they vote for your left-wing competition as the *center-left alternative*, telling those voters that said competition is "extreme left* is not going to work. They already went there, they saw there are no monsters there.

It's good that some people are starting to realize this. Labour has shifted so far right in search of the mythical "Labour-Reform swing voter" that in doing so, it has conceded the spot of the *main center-left party* to the Greens.

I've criticized the USCCB plenty, but they sure showed up big with this one. This brief, besides a stunning rebuke of Trump's attack on birthright citizenship, doubles down as a total repudiation of the so-called "Catholic nationalists'" take on immigration policy.

Yup, people doing this kind of stuff are *literal Nazis*. They need to be identified, tried and punished ASAP. Among with the entire command structure that enabled this.

I made a thread about what we need to do to combat the right-wing playbook. The thread evolved into something the size of a post on my yet-nonexistent blog, so if you're interested you might want to read the entire thing :)

This is the same playbook being played all over and over again. First, use X with its Nazi-loving owner and YouTube/TikTok to fuel extreme far-right, Nazi tendencies. Then create an outright extremist party that endorses violence, open racism etc. so the *previous* extreme party appears "moderate".

Oh, so I see the GOP is already at its "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!" moment. What could possibly go wrong?

People who publicly call the Epstein list a "moral panic" and any legal proceedings based on the Epstein list "mob justice" should be preventively jailed for 5 years without parole in a maximum security prison. Call it the "Epstein crime". Convince me this wouldn't be good.

So, Anthropic just made a statement about "distillation attacks" by Chinese labs. They are worried because top Chinese open-source models have rapidly closed the gap separating them from Claude's Sonnet and Opus models. So now they want the US government's help.

Przypominajka językowa, że w języku polskim taryfy to są u operatora telefonii albo dostawcy prądu, ewentualnie taksówkarza, a to, na punkcie czego fioła ma Trump to *cła*.

Watching the live conference, of course Trump is 10 minutes late already...

Before considering the (not completely invalid) claim that Trump will attempt to reintroduce the tariffs, remember - regardless of what he attempts NOW, the tariffs he did raise were ruled illegal - so the money he took has to be given back and new tariffs cannot be retroactively applied.

Kind of cute that the 6-people majority in SCOTUS was like "hey, of course he can't impose tariffs, that'a obvious, now that we got that out of the way, let's use this as a fascinating opportunity for a big debate on the Major Questions Doctrine".

Oops :)

Strong Soviet Union "adherence to Marxism-Leninism dogmas" vibe. This is an absurd level of actual state-level censorship.

This, a thousand times over. People who *actually* want to claim that "yes, Democrats in office would be doing mass ethnic cleansing of American cities", would destroy America's reputation and sell bribes to foreign powers for millions need to get a grip.

A Ukrainian refugee was murdered in the US in cold blood: people.com/ukrainian-re... You won't hear the right-wing mob that was screaming after the murder of Iryna Zarutska say a word about this. Why? Well, you have three guesses. The first two don't count. 🟫⬜⬛

Soooo... anyone remember the 25-5452 (Boasberg contempt appeal)? Anything happening there? It's been over a month since the parties filed their briefs. Sure looks like yet another half-year stall by the Trump justices (Rao and Walker).

@kenwhite.bsky.social your piece is proving to be prophetic.

Reminder - this guy first advocated for Christians to return to building small, dedicated communities of people adhering to Christian morality, then decided to spend abandon his wife and children and instead dedicate his live to serving a corrupt Hungarian dictator. An anti-example if I know one.

O, zerknąłem na NaziTwitterka i widzę, że nowa inba o Wiernikowską i jej propagandowy materiał ku czci Putina i Matuszki Rassiji wleciał. Stanowski dawno się tak żenująco nie obnażył - wszystkie jego "argumenty" to albo ataki ad personam, albo whataboutyzm. Chyba pierwsza taka duża wtopa PR.

Looking at the reactions of Republicans, even the allegedly moderate ones like Don Bacon, they still think the Minnesota Murders is something that will just be forgotten and ICE will continue unimpeded. This party is just absolutely, fundamentally broken and rotten to the core.

So the US Ambassador to Poland throws a hissy fit over the Polish Speaker of the Parliament deciding not to endorse Trump's Peace Price candidature. Then, when PM Tusk rebukes him, he decides to double down and keep tweeting through it. These people are disgustingly incompetent.

Better late than never, I guess.

"But what you cannot do is to detain first and then sort out lawful authority later. Continued detention is not lawful just because compliance with release orders is administratively difficult or because an operation has expanded beyond the Government's capacity to execute it lawfully."

Nie wiem, czy to tutaj potrzebne, ale na wszelki wypadek #kalibracjakonta: osoby transpłciowe zasługują na szacunek i wsparcie. Możemy dyskutować, jak to wsparcie ma wyglądać, ale jeśli uważasz, że owo wsparcie ma polegać na "twardej karcącej ręce rządu", to się doedukuj lub spadaj.

So the hyped up "bot social network" with "emerging social intelligence" actually ends up a gigantic security hole and data dump. Who could've predicted... www.wiz.io/blog/exposed...

Can't wait for all the American assholes who were defending the arrest of Don Lemon last week to wake up and start lecturing Europeans on how the raid on X's headquarters in Paris is an attack on free speech.

So, after a bit of downtime, VP Vance is back. To talk about the Epstein files? Some important policy measures? No. To defend the extremely popular policy of *checks notes* putting 5-year olds in concentration camps:

Shocked. Absolutely shocked, I tell you.